Cigar-pouch.



Patented Nov. 20, I900.

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(Application filed May 4, 1899.)

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UNTTEn STATES PATENT JOHN J. DITTGEN, OF MADISONVILLE, OHIO.

CIGAR-POUCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 662,226, dated November20, 1900.

Application filed May 4, 1899. Serial No. 715,515. the model) T0 atlU7'b077t it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN J. DITTGEN, aciti- Zen of the United States,residing at Madisonville, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio,have invented certain Improvements in Cigar-Pouches, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to certain improvements in individual pouches orreceptacles for holding cigars; and it has for its object to provide apouch or receptacle for this purpose which shall be of a simple andinexpensive nature, capable of being manufactured in connected orsheet-like series form, so that the pouches or receptacles may bedetached and.

used singly, or when desired several of said pouches or receptacles maybe detached and employed in connected form for holding cigars.

The invention consists in certain novel features of the improved pouchor receptacle, whereby certain important advantages are attained, andthe device is made simpler, stronger, and otherwise better adapted foruse, all as will be hereinafter fully set forth.

The novel features of the invention will be carefully defined in theclaims.

In the drawings which serve to illustrate my invention, Figure 1 is aperspective view showing a pouch or receptacle made according to myinvention in distended form. Fig. 2 is a view drawn to a smaller scaleand showin g several of the pouches or receptacles connected as theyappear in sheet-like form. Fig. 3 is an edge view looking toward themonth end of the collapsed pouches or receptacles shown in Fig. 2. Fig.4 is an enlarged transverse section taken through two of the connectedpouches or receptacles and showing them in distended form. Fig. 5 is aView similar to Fig. 2, but showing a modified form of the improvedpouch or receptacle.

In the views, 1 indicates the outer wall of the pouch or receptacle,formed of a strip of heavy paper or cardboard, having a trans verse bendor fold 2 formed at its central part, so that the ends or sections 3 and4 of the strip are made to extend parallel to each other to receivebetween them the collapsible or flexible body portion 5 of the pouch,which latter is formed, by preference, from thin paper and is ofrectangular cross-section when distended, having central folds orcreases 6 extending lengthwise along its sides and arranged to foldinwardly or toward each other when the pouchor receptacle is collapsed.Each side of the body portion 5 is formed with but a single fold 6, andsaid sides are so proportioned that when the pouch or receptacle iscollapsed the inner edges of the respective opposite folds 6 are closelyadjacent, as indicated in Fig. 3, so that the central portion of thecollapsed pouch is of the same thickness as the lateral portionsthereof.

At front and back the body portion 5 of the pouch is cemented or glued,as indicated at 7, to the inner surfaces of thetwo sections or plies 3and 4 of the outer wall 1, the bottom of the body 5 being closed by thefold 2 of the outer wall 1. The edges of the body portion 5 and theouter wall 1 at the mouth or open end of the pouch or receptacle aremade openly serrated, as shown at 8 in the drawings, to facilitate theinsertion of the cigar therein, and the strip 1, of which the outer wallof the pouch is formed, is made of a slightly-greater width than thebody portion 5, so that when the parts are united, as shown in thedrawings, the longitudinal edges of the front and back walls 3 and 4project beyond the edges of the body 5, as seen at 9, to give protectionto the lateral folds of said body and also to prevent as far as possibledamage to the contained cigar through the flexible sides of the pouch orreceptacle when carried in the pocket.

The pouches or receptacles are manufac-- tured in connected orsheet-like form, as shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4, a single sheet of stiffpaper or cardboard being employed to form the several strips 1 and beingfolded along its central line to receive between its sections or pliesthe several body portions 5, which, being formed separately or independ'ently from each other, are spaced apart from each other sufficiently toprovide for the projecting edge portions 9 in the completed pouches andare suitably cemented or glued in place. The body-portions are open atboth ends and the inner end of each of them is placed at the fold of theout-er piles or sections, so that when the sections are folded togetherthey will close the bottoms of the body portions,thereby avoiding thenecessity of folding the body portion, and thus securing a pouch ofperfectly-smooth surface and even thickness throughout, upon whichadvertising or other matter may be printed at any time after the pouchhas been completed. In this manner the pouches can be formed in sheetsand carried, in stock, and as soon as an order is received the pouchescan be run through the press and any desired matter printed thereon tosuit the purchaser. The pouches or receptacles are then partiallyseparated by means of parallel series of cuts or slits 10, the cuts ofeach series being elongated and being separated at suitable intervals toprovide narrow bonds or ligaments 11, by means of which the severalpouches or receptacles are connected and held in sheet form, so thatthey may be detached from the sheet singly or severalat a time for use.

hen the cells orpouehes are torn apart,the bonds or ligaments 11 willproject at the outer edges of the cardboard walls, so as to give saidedges a serrated or roughened nature to cause them to engage thepocket-lining, so as to effectually prevent the pouch from accidentallyslipping from the pocket, whereby the contained cigars might be broken.

In some cases it may be desirable to provide the pouches or receptacleswith means for closing or sealing the mouths or open ends thereof, andinFig. 5 I have shown connected pouches so constructed. In this form ofthe device one of the plies or sections, as 4, of the stiff cover 1 ofeach pouch is extended, as shown at 12, beyond the mouth of the pouch toform a closing or sealing flap, the edge of which may be gummed, as seenat 13. In this form of the pouch the stiff sheet of which the strips 1are formed will not be centrally folded, but provision will be made forthe projecting flaps 12, and the slits 10 are extended across theprojecting edge portion of the cardboard sheet of which the flaps 12 areformed, so that these flaps, as well as the respective cells or pouches,are made readily separable from each other. The cardboard sheet is alsoformed on the outer surface of one of its plies with a series ofparallel sanded stripes 14, as clearly shown in Fig. 5, these stripesforming match-scratches upon the respective individual pouches or cellswhen these latter are demarkated by means of the series of cuts 10 tofacilitate the striking of matches for lighting the cigars, and thestiff paper or cardboard of which the outer walls of the pouch areformed will, by preference, be waxed or paraffined, so as to protect thecement uniting the body 5 thereto, and also in a measure the containedcigar, from perspiration when the pouch is carried in the pocket. Ifdesired, also the pouches may be made, as shown at the left in Fig. 2,with one of the plies or sections, as 4:, of the stiff sheet projectingat the mouth of the pouch to be engaged by the finger in opening thepouch to insert a cigar.

The improved pouch constructed as above described is extremely simpleand inexpensive and is especially well adapted for use,

since being in sheet form it is adapted for containing from a singlecigar up to any usual number, the connected sides or walls 3 {H1614 ofthe pouches, when several are detached and used at once, acting to givestiffness and stability to the connected receptacles when expanded bythe contained cigars, so as to give the efiect of a pouch such as iscommonly made for containing several cigars. At the same time when acigar is taken from either receptacle the empty pouch may be veryreadily detached to saveroom in the pocket.

The two stifl' walls or sections 3 and 4 of the pouch add materially tothe strength and stiffness of the device and afiord protection againstbreakage of the contained cigar, and the inturned folds 6 in theflexible sides of the pouch being closely adjacent when collapsed thepouch is given substantially a uniform thickness throughout its entirewidth, so that the pouches may, if desired and preferred, be suit-ablyprinted after manufacture and while in connected or sheet form.

From the above description it will also be obvious that the improvedpouch or receptacle is capable of some modification Without materialdeparture from the principles and spirit of the invention, and for thisreason I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the preciseform and arrangement of the several parts herein set forth.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. Cigar receptacles orpouches in connected or sheet-like form and comprising a sheet of stiifmaterial folded to form two plies and having parallel transverse seriesof cuts dividing the two plies into parts forming front and back wallsfor individual receptacles or pouches, and independently-formed thinpaper body portions, one for each pouch or receptacle, each body portionhaving its front and back cemented between the front and back walls ofits respective pouch or receptacle and having its opposite sides formedwith inturned single folds the inner edges of which are closely adjacentwhen the pouch or receptacle is collapsed, to give the pouches orreceptacles an even thickness throughout their entire width,substantially as set forth.

2. Cigar pouches or receptacles in connected or sheet-like formcomprising a sheet of stiff material folded to form two plies or outerwalls and flexible body portions cemented between said plies, the plieshaving transverse series of cuts located between the body portions andone ply having portions independent of each other and extended beyondthe mouths of the body portions between each two transverse series ofcuts and adapted to be closed over the open mouths of the pouches,substantially as set forth.

JOHN J. DITTGEN.

Witnesses:

JOHN ELIAS J ONES, GEO. LINDEMANN.

